“People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.”

“Among the seascapes, I am doing the regattas of Le Havre with many figures on the beach and the outer harbor covered with small sails.”

“I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

“No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.”